William James Niall Rudd (23 June 1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.

Life and work

Rudd was born in

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and studied Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He then taught Latin at the Universities of Hull and

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. From 1958 to 1968 he was Associate Professor of Latin at University College, Toronto. In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as a professor of Latin at the

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. In 1973 he moved to the

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to the chair of Latin, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. From 1976 to 1979 he was Director (Head of Department) of the Department of Classics and Archaeology. After retirement Rudd returned to

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and was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow there.

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awarded him an honorary

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in 1998 (DLitt). Rudd died of

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after a long illness ( Alzheimer's) on 5 October 2015 at St. John's Hospice on the Wirral. Rudd worked intensively with

Latin literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literatur ...

, especially Roman poetry, and its reception in

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

of the modern age. He wrote books, monographs and articles about works of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...

, and on the satires of

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

and

Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ; 55–128), was a Roman poet. He is the author of the '' Satires'', a collection of satirical poems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, but references in his works to people f ...

whose work he presented in English translation. This work has been published in two collections (1994, 2005). In addition, he published, in 1994, an autobiographical record of his childhood and youth in Ireland.

Bibliography

* ''The Satires of Horace. A Study'' (1966) Cambridge:

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* ''The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes'' (1973) London: Harmondsworth Press * ''Essays on Classical Literature, Selected from Arion and introduced by Niall Rudd'' (1974) Cambridge: Heffer Press * ''Lines of Enquiry – Studies in Latin Poetry'' (1976) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press * with Edward Courtney: ''Juvenal: Satires I, III, X'' (1977) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press * ''T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary'' (1981) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press * ''The Satires of Horace'' (1982) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press * ''Themes in Roman Satire'' (1986) London: Duckworth Press * ''Cicero: 'De Legibus I. (1987) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press * ''Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones (‘Ars Poetica’)'' (1989) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press * ''Juvenal. The Satires'' (1991) Oxford: Oxford University Press * ''The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius'' (1994) Toronto: University of Toronto Press * ''Pale Green, Light Orange. A Portrait of Bourgeois Ireland 1930-1950'' (1994) Dublin: Lilliput Press * with JGF Powell: ''Marcus Tullius Cicero: 'The Republic' and 'The Laws (1998) Oxford: Oxford University Press * with Robin G. M. Nisbet: ''A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III'' (2004) Oxford: Oxford University Press * ''Horace, Odes and Epodes'' (2004) Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press (''

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'') * ''The Common Spring. Essays on Latin and English Poetry''. (2005) Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press * ''Lines of Enquiry. Studies in Latin Poetry'' (2005) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press * ''Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems'' (2005) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press * ''Landor’s Latin Poems: Fifty Pieces'' (2010) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press

References

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